Japan Market Outlook - 18 August 2021

The Nikkei index was slightly higher on Tuesday, after In the Major investors, has lost more than 1%, three straight sessions of losses, with the benchmark has lost 0.5 percent, and Nikkei index just below the 27,600 level, despite traders' has lost almost 1%, while Canon has gained 0.6 fears that coronavirus delta variant infections are still at percent. record levels. The worst-performing Topix subsector was air transport, With more prefectures under a state of emergency and which fell 2.34 percent. experts calling for the state of emergency to be expanded to the entire country. Services fell 0.97 percent after rising 0.62 percent earlier, while shops fell 0.30 percent after rising 0.49 After climbing as much as 0.56 percent earlier, the wider percent earlier. Topix fell 0.49 percent to 1,915.63. On Tuesday, the US dollar is trading in the lower 109 After reaching a high of 27,750.39 earlier, the Index is up 17.32 points, or 0.06 percent, to 27,540.51. yen region in the currency market.

A heavyweight in the market SoftBank Group is The fifth wave of COVID-19 infections in proving unchanged, while , the parent company of difficult to control. The Government plans the state of Uniqlo, is up 0.2 percent. and have both lost emergency in Tokyo until September 12 and expands 0.4 percent of their market value. the restrictions to seven more prefectures.

In the technology sector, is down 0.4 percent, On Tuesday, Tokyo confirmed 2,962 new daily cases, while Screen Holdings is up more than 1% and Tokyo down from a high of 5,773 on Friday. Electron is up 0.5 percent.

In the banking sector, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial is up 0.1 percent.

Top Gainers Top Losers

Company Last Price Change% Company Last Price Change%

Nissan Chemical Corp. ¥5,730.00 3.62% Rakuten Group Inc. ¥1,124.00 -5.94%

Toho Co. Ltd. ¥2,060.00 3.41% O.S.K. Lines Ltd. ¥7,210.00 -3.22%

Nippon Suisan Kaisha ¥594.00 2.41% Ltd. K.K. ¥8,110.00 -3.11%

Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha AGC Inc. ¥5,070.00 2.32% ¥5,010.00 -2.91% Ltd.

FUJIFILM Holdings Corp. ¥8,836.00 2.28% Holdings Corp. ¥6,440.00 -2.57% Japan Market Outlook - 18 August 2021

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